1:25,26
Jesus exerts His real authority. First He tells the demon to be quiet, and then to come out of the man. The demon has no option but to obey, and comes out of the man, shaking him violently in the process, and giving a loud shriek.
1:27,28
The people were amazed. Jesus cast the demon out by a simple command, there was no great rigmarole, nor incantations. So as well as the “new teaching” there was action to back up the teaching. The demons obeyed Him. They knew that someone different was amongst them, and the news spread. At this point there is no debate about Jesus doing stuff on the Sabbath, later a number of confrontations will occur over Sabbath healings. Perhaps simply commanding demons to come out did not count as work. Interestingly, teaching clearly did not count as working on the Sabbath.
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